 Hello Earth citizens, my name is Chris. I'm a brain education instructor for Morally Hills, California Thank you for joining again for this five-element heat on series today We'll do the third element, which is wood We've previously done metal the first and we've done water the second and so here we are with wood So through the five elements, it's an Eastern practice for harmonizing our energy It's one of my favorites for my overall well-being in my daily practice to make sure I'm balanced And so today we're going to focus on the wood element. So the wood element has to do with the liver Which is on your right side. So I'm gonna I'm gonna go on my wrong side So you guys can hear me. So on your right side is your liver So you want to rub through that space and your gallbladder comes a little bit more centrally So you can rub under the rib cage on the right side all the way into the solar plexus type area gallbladder area so we want to Start to bring our focus and our attention to this space So the wood element Is going to allow us to Let go some anger It's also going to help us grow our kindness and generosity. So through the flows today We're gonna have some cleansing to get rid of somebody anger We're gonna have some building and then we're gonna have some circulation to grow that generosity to grow that kindness So we're ready to get ourselves started. So go and relax your arms down feet about shoulder width includes strong stance We're gonna start with a bit of a tight you opening. So we're gonna inhale our hands up and Exhale down so starting to get the energy to flow up and down your spine Good. So as you inhale allow your chest to rise your tailbone to drop as you exhale let your chest sink your tailbone tuck So we want to start to get this rhythm of flow up and down with the breath energies moving up and down our body up and down our spot inhaling up And exhaling down Good so first we're gonna move into a purging exercise Which is releasing letting go. So we're gonna bring our hands in front of our Third chakra area our solar plexus area. You can have your left hand on top your right hand on the bottom here And so what we're gonna end up doing is we're gonna push energy away like you're trying to get rid of something And then the other hand is gonna come back towards your Rib cage, you're gonna touch the side of the hand on your wrist and then you're gonna flip the hands and you're gonna switch So as your hips are gonna have a little bit of a rotation and a movement the knees stay you get this little bit of movement This is gonna help you move that energy. So I'm gonna push And then I'm gonna push So now this one here the breath is a little bit faster. We're trying to release So maybe it's inhale for two one two exhale for two Inhale Exhale So if you feel a lot of anger You might start going a little faster If you feel a little bit of anger you might go a little slower, but imagine you're pushing That energy away you're getting that anger out as you pull your elbow back as you push your hand forward You feel the twisting through the spine. You're bringing some of that tension out around that liver Right side that all bladder in the center So the exhale can be firm can be solid to let go of this. So anger energy Anxiety frustration You might start to breathe like a little bit like a dragon Good let that out good And so your breath can be relatively comfortable You might not sink it up with the movement, especially if you're releasing more and more and more Good job to warm what and to so feel the warmth through your body So now we're gonna come to our building posture. You're gonna hug the giant tree So relax the shoulders. No tension elbows fall just below the hand the palms face your chest Good open your heart. You can open the fingers feel that energy sense here sink into the legs Well done You want to feel the strength from the soles to crown tail bones reaching for the earth crowns reaching for the ceiling Good, so feel that energy flowing So the holding postures allow us to build To grow the materials the energy feel our vessel our entire body with energy So that we can then use it for growing or cultivating for circulating So You might feel a little bit of tension There might be some hand in the shoulders your legs might be trembling a little bit so embrace those vibrations those discomforts the Cold energy with a hot energy lots of things changing inside. That is all the energy cleansing purifying opening Allow your body to heal so from our building We're gonna go into a flow that's gonna allow us to cultivate this energy to grow this energy So the energy we want to grow from the wood element is a kindness a generosity good so the color is green So think of a dark forest green and then we're gonna start to fill our body with it So his hands are gonna come down like you're Holding up your abdomen So we're gonna twist over to the left side as we inhale you're gonna pull the energy up picture a tree pulling the nutrients Pulling the water up as your hands get just above the forehead. You're gonna Rotate back and then as you exhale your hands are blooming like the tree open exhale down back To the circle and now we'll turn To the right inhaling up Pulling in the nutrients Returning exhale blooming tree expanding Beautiful great energy good. So inhale as your hands come up Returning exhale picture the beautiful tree blooming So feel the green energy coming up filling your liver filling your gallbladder Filling yourself with kindness generosity Twisting inhaling twisting exhaling Drawing up the energy Exhale blooming grow good one more to each side. Let's pull the energy down three times in here now exhale Harmonizing balancing the energy throughout the entire one Asping your hands covering your lower dungeon second chakram and begin this way bamboo drifting floating No effort just the energy moving your body begin to rub your abdomen clockwise when you feel both shoulders in Good gathering that energy storing that energy and slowly stomp you breath in And out Thank you for joining me for our practice with the wood Elton I hope you join me for the next two sessions If you'd like to experience a full one-hour brain education based class, please contact the body and brain center near you